ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Boffins reckon Mars colony could survive with fewer than two dozen people

(2023/08/16)

Taming that unforgiving dust world may be significantly less expensive than anticipated



Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash

(2023/08/16)

Reports police called to control ATM frenzy after €1,000 added to accounts, by leprechauns maybe



Bad software destroyed my doctor's memory

(2023/08/16)

Column Design this bad should sicken developers – but it's the rest of us who end up feeling queasy



Singapore opens to stablecoins – once they jump through some hoops

(2023/08/16)

After regulators are done with them, providers will look a lot like boring old banks



South Korea 'puts the brakes' on Google's app store dominance

(2023/08/16)

Starts monitoring developer deals after first slapping the G-force with substantial fine



Not call: Open source gurus urge you to dump Zoom

(2023/08/16)

In footsteps of GiveUpGitHub, campaign follows AI ToS fiasco



Clorox cleans up IT security breach that soaked its biz ops

(2023/08/16)

Plus: Medical records for 4M people within reach of Clop gang after IBM MOVEit deployment hit



Watchdog vows crackdown on 'harmful' world of surveillance-by-data-broker

(2023/08/15)

Analysis Promise of action excites some, others wish America had Cali-style Delete Act for personal info



Nikola recalls electric truck fleet over battery fires

(2023/08/15)

Updated You can still drive 'em, but park outside for ... OTA updates, says EV maker



AVX10: The benefits of AVX-512 without all the baggage

(2023/08/15)

Turns out bigger isn't always better



US shovels cash into supercomputers hoping to stoke fusion future

(2023/08/15)

$112M for 12 projects announced on heels of LLNL's second successful fusion ignition



80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office

(2023/08/15)

Or so says a worrying survey



Gelsinger: Intel should get more CHIPS Act funding than rivals

(2023/08/15)

And cool it on the export bans, pleads CEO – we want to sell fish, not fishing rods, to China



Charging your iPhone literally costs Apple millions as Batterygate saga slams shut

(2023/08/15)

Estimated payments of $65 can now be distributed to those who filed a claim in 2018 lawsuit



Foxconn to spend billions bulking its Indian operations – just for starters

(2023/08/15)

Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand on mega-manufacturer's list of not-China expansion targets



Microsoft may store your conversations with Bing if you're not an enterprise user

(2023/08/15)

New AI Services policies also prohibit any reverse engineering and data collection of its products



Nutanix reckons you can stuff AI into a box – a box it manages, that is

(2023/08/15)

You need resources in lots of places, which is the hybrid cloud taming trick the company exists to perform



So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans

(2023/08/15)

We, for one, welcome our distorted-letter-recognizing overlords



You're not seeing double – yet another UK copshop is confessing to a data leak

(2023/08/15)

Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies admit to accidentally including raw crime data in FoI responses



Tech CEO admits role in tricking Qualcomm into $150M takeover

(2023/08/15)

Abreezio? Maybe not, but it was a plea deal



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